Palin: ‘I do not have respect’ for Romney’s debt-deal performance

FILE - In this May 31, 2011 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin walks to the door of Trump Tower for a scheduled meeting with Donald Trump in New York. Thousands of Palin's emails from her first two years as governor are being released by the state of Alaska, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

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Sarah Palin knocked presidential candidate Mitt Romney for waiting until the debt-ceiling compromise was a “done deal” before speaking out against it.

“He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government,” the former Alaska governor said. “And then he came out and he made a statement that ‘oh he didn’t like the deal after all.’”

On Monday, Romney said, “While I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama’s lack of leadership has placed Republican Members of Congress in, I personally cannot support this deal.”

Palin said that was too late to matter.

“Doggone it, I want these candidates who are in there,” she said. “I want them to not be sitting back.

“So Mitt Romney and other candidates, you need to get out there, you need to tell the electorate what you really feel about these issues.”

During the Tuesday night interview with Sean Hannity, Palin said she’s getting closer to deciding whether she will run for president.